Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.0.1 "xc_map_foreign_batch: mmap failed: Cannot allocate memory"

["Charles Arnold" <carnold@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 1/5/2011 at 07:37 AM, in message
<alpine.DEB.2.00.1101051422360.2390@kaball-desktop>, Stefano Stabellini
<stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Keir Fraser wrote:
>> On 16/12/2010 20:44, "Charles Arnold" <carnold@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> >>> On 12/16/2010 at 01:33 PM, in message <C9302813.2966F%keir@xxxxxxx>, Keir
>> > Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> On 16/12/2010 19:23, "Charles Arnold" <carnold@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >>> The bug is that qemu-dm seems to make the assumption that it can mmap 
>> >>> from
>> >>> dom0 all the memory with which the guest has been defined instead of the
>> >>> memory
>> >>> that is actually available on the host.
>> >> 
>> >> 32-bit dom0? Hm, I thought the qemu mapcache was supposed to limit the 
>> >> total
>> >> amount of guest memory mapped at one time, for a 32-bit qemu. For 64-bit
>> >> qemu I wouldn't expect to find a limit as low as 3.25G.
>> > 
>> > Sorry, I should have specified that it is a 64 bit dom0 / hypervisor.
>> 
>> Okay, well I'm not sure what limit qemu-dm is hitting then. Mapping 3.25G of
>> guest memory will only require a few megabytes of pagetables for the qemu
>> process in dom0. Perhaps there is a ulimit or something set on the qemu
>> process?
>> 
>> If we can work out and detect this limit, perhaps 64-bit qemu-dm could have
>> a mapping cache similar to 32-bit qemu-dm, limited to some fraction of the
>> detected mapping limit. And/or, on mapping failure, we could reclaim
>> resources by simply zapping the existing cached mappings. Seems there's a
>> few options. I don't really maintain qemu-dm myself -- you might get some
>> help from Ian Jackson, Stefano, or Anthony Perard if you need more advice.
> 
> The mapcache size limit should be 64GB on a 64bit qemu-dm.
> Any interesting error messages in the qemu logs?

No, just the usual mmap error.  See the attached logs.

As a reminder, the following conditions exist to duplicate the problem.
Host: x86_64 sles11sp1.  Boot with dom0_mem=2048M, set (enable-dom0-ballooning 
no) in xend-config.sxp
Hypervisor: x86_64 Xen 4.0.1
Guests: win2k3 (32bit) and win2k8r2 (64bit)
The win2k8r2 guest uses robocopy to copy a 10 Gig file from the win2k3 guest.  
It copied about 23.2% before failing.

Attachment: qemu-dm-win-2k8r2.log
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Attachment: qemu-dm-win2k3.log
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